Security risk with firestarter

["A.E.Lawrence" <A.E.Lawrence@lboro.ac.uk>]

Sorry if I am missing something, but it appears that firestarter can 
only be configured for ppp if a link is already active: on my system it 
cannot detect the ppp0 interface otherwise.

But that surely requires on open unprotected connection, at least until 
the firestarter wizard has completed and started the firewall?

I have another problem with this first attempt to get firestarter 
running:  all the options in the Policy menu are "greyed out" and all 
the otherways of customizing rules are also inactive, but that 
presumably is a different issue. This is under debian sarge.

ael